Hey all A month has passed since my last e-mail and while I received lots of feedback (mainly relating to the structure and readability of the document) there were no concerns about making this official and I have thus made the page official.

If you work on extensions or MediaWiki core, please read through the changes outlined below, and have a look at the policy page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy/frontend.

Given the substantial edits to the page itself to change structure and readability (but not meaning) please review the open topics on the talk page: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Stable_interface_policy/frontend This document is intended to be a living document that evolves with our shared needs over time, so this should not be seen as a perfect finalized document.

I hope this helps provide Wikimedia sites with a healthier ecosystem, particularly for gadget developers. Thanks to all those who have engaged in this process over the last two years [1] and special thanks to Amir Sarabandi for help relating to its roll-out.

Jon

[1] Note: In my original email I mistakenly said that we had been working on it for 3 years.

On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 4:28 PM Jon Robson jrobson@wikimedia.org wrote:

Dear fellow developers! If you don't work on gadgets or Wikimedia code, feel free to ignore this email!

For some time we've had the Stable interface policy which has been super helpful for backend-development. I would love us to have an equivalent for frontend code.

For the past 3 years we have been building one with feedback and suggestions from gadget developers, WMF staff and Wikimedia volunteers. The current draft can be found at:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jdlrobson/Stable_interface_policy/fronte...

I would like to make this policy official so that we can get the benefits of having a document and continue to evolve it in a more official capacity.

If anyone wants to veto this, I'd like to hear from you on the talk page or by a reply to this email (either privately or publicly). When making a veto please make that explicit and include the text you find problematic and details about why.

If there is no active veto after one month, this policy will be made official and moved to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy/frontend.

Thanks in advance for all your help with this important matter!

Jon Robson PS. This note has also been sent to tech news.

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